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On Art and Painting

Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain. Studies in Visual Culture

Other adaptation by Jean Andrews, Jeremy Roe, Oliver Noble Wood
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Wales Press, Wales, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Jul 2016
Dimensions: w 139mm h 216mm d 36mm
Weight: 665g
ISBN-10: 1783168595
ISBN-13: 9781783168590
Barcode No: 9781783168590
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This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration with other prominent painters working in Madrid, to raise the status of the artist from artisan to liberal artist. The treatise provides an overview of the melding of Italian Renaissance art theory and Madrilenian practice in the baroque era. It also offers first-hand insight into collecting in Madrid during this crucial period in the rapid expansion of the capital city. The present collection of essays by art historians and hispanists from the UK, Spain, Germany and the US examines each of the dialogues in detail, furnishing an account of Carducho's campaign to establish a painting academy and to professionalise the office of the painter; detailing the publication history of the treatise and the interrelationship between painting and poetry; and it cites Carducho's own painting in relation to the Italian and Spanish traditions within which he operated.

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